This is a travelog of the summer of 2010. It was incredible and highly refreshing summer. Many, many times I hate talking about what’s going on, so I decided to write the middle school essay “What I did on my summer vacation.” That way I can get it all out and live in the present
I love new technologies that are simple, fun, and creative. It is called searchstories by Google. You can create a video (in less than 5 minutes) using searches. I had to fine-tune mine and there aren’t a lot of choices in music (of course I would prefer to compose my own.) Here is my little
I was one of the lucky fifty educators to be selected to attend Google Teacher Academy in Chicago. I knew this was going to be cool and interesting, but I didn’t realize how innovative this really was. Here I am the weekend after, reading all those great emails and creating new projects for my classroom
Carol Broos is working for the Golden Apple Foundation using her arts and technology background as the Technology Coordinator. Her passion is to bring infuse music and technology together in education. She recently retired after thirty-three years of teaching music grades kindergarten through eighth grade in Illinois.
She is on the SET Connections Board, Chair of the Golden Apple Foundation Academy Board, and Poster Co-chair for the Illinois Computing Educators.
2009 Apple Distinguished Educator
2009 Illinois Music Teacher of the Year
2008 Golden Apple Fellow
2006 Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher
She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Music Educators Journal for NAfME. She hosts a podcast show on EdReach.us called aRTs Roundtable that posts on Wednesdays, where arts educators discuss current issues involving the arts and technology.
